Benefit-claiming council estate residents
12-May-2008
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Maybe I'm just being callous, but I can't help but think society would be better off without a large majority of the benefit-claiming, council estate cases in the U.K.  It sometimes feels that, in any other country in the world, these people would have starved on the streets before now - yet here in this country we have to pay a percentage of our earnings to keep them in the style they have become accustomed to.

Council estate residents, benefit claiming

I read today of a notorious council estate where the youths had hung a dog from the lamp-post and set it on fire.  In fact not so long ago there was another article with the very same residents (complete with a photograph of a bunch of overweight, hoop-earring proles scowling with their arms crossed like some kind of Jeremy Kyle audience) complaining about the council's long-overdue decision to demolish this estate and re-house them.  I might add that they were to be re-housed at no cost to themselves!

I'm sure there's some people who, for whatever reason, genuinely require benefits or disability payments and can't work. Perhaps there are also those who find themselves taking council homes because it's the only choice they have.  I feel truly sorry for these decent and honest people who are probably in the minority, especially if they have to share their lives with this ever-increasing underclass of scum.

By: Cynical Blonde


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Margo
Before chucking the Grammar and spelling bricks check your own dissertation.
*Toll Slayer  18-Apr-2008 16:12

 
what the film idiocracy but apply it to the UK if we keep going the way we are going we will be over crowded and out numbered by hooligans
*Gio  17-Apr-2008 15:46

 
the chav culture is on the increase because our benefits system is paying irresponsible girls to have babies as a means to being able to live their lives without ever having to work.

Lets do what Bill Clinton did, send them out to work in the community for their money and stop giving them housing. Offer them a hostel where the kids can be cared for and brought up properly by nannies.

It's our fault this is happening, how many of you complaining here have actually written to your mp's about the abuse of the benefits culture and made it known that you don't want your taxes squandered in this way anymore???

These people will carry on breeding and multiplying until there are more of them scrounging than there are working people to support them. Dear God, what in God's name will happen to this country then?

Get in touch with your MP, you can do it online, it's easy.
*hardworkingmum  14-Apr-2008 21:30

 
one thing about these estates is the preteens who sit on the kerbs with there legs wide open showing there knickers its a pedo paradise
*steetwise  05-Apr-2008 12:25

 
I am a 19 year old male from cheshire, who has grown up through all this. watching mine and near by towns decay, as this infestation of a chav and skally culture pulls our country apart!
I walk around the shopping centre near to where I live and see 2 prams to every girl.
I see rows of girls who appear to have 'accidently' got pregnant all at the same time.
I hear the constant screech of scouse mother screaming at their children.
and really to drive past the dole office and see the size of the que is unbelievable.
To all this I can honestly say is I want to leave......... I do not want to grow up in this country and it hurts me to say that about my home.
why do we have to have this act hard....money for nothing culture taking over our communities!
*Gio  31-Mar-2008 02:15

 
I couldnt agree more with you - i'm a single mum - I work full time and earn a very good wage - unfortunately I cannot afford to buy on my own, and so I am forced to rent - a council house. and I hate it! I do an 8 mile round trip everyday so that she can go to a school thats no where near the local scum, so that she will grow up to appreciate finer things and not make any friends with the local kids ( just as bad as the ones you described) I pay hefty childcare fees on top of that - and not a single penny of this comes from her "father" wants her on all the best days of the year and whenever it suits him, but usually at my expense - well I say no more, thanks for your post its nice to know there are others with the same views
*annoyed brunette  09-Mar-2008 20:34

 
Five point plan:

Gas all dole scrounging single parent sluts.

Can't speak English-send them back

Convert Butlins into a 'Special Camp' for sub blue collar unemployed vermin.

Sterilise Chav Slags.

Credit check all expectant mothers.

Stop ALL benefits

I hope this is clear to you Guardian readers.
*GEOFF D  16-Dec-2007 21:47

 
Each case should be judged on merit.

Those that do annoy me are the ones that have a mortgage and the wife claims to leave him.

She is given a house, he moves in with her and the kids and all is sweet.

They then rent their home out and this pays toward the mortgage whilst they are one big happy family in a council house.

This does annoy me and it's happening all over the country.

I know at least eight people in my small area that are doin' this scam. I called the council a year or so to report this activity but I had a monkey on the end of the phone. All he could talk about was 'happy hours' after work and how he moves from one pub to another to time them all just right. I never bothered aft this.
*Big H  07-Dec-2007 11:01

 
There's some benefit scroungers/chavs living on council estates,but there are many genuine claimants too,that are unemployed or too ill/disabled to work,through no fault of their own.

It's unfair to tar everyone with the same brush & to imply that every poor person living on a council estate is a hooligan,vandal,junkie or a ned.

There are some really decent working class folk living in council houses.

Just because some of us are already financially better off or have improved our lot in life,
there's no need to get upitty about it & look down on others.

The Welfare State is the safety-net for the socially disadvantaged,of course it is abused by a minority of people(so called benefit cheats)that work on the side,claim to be living alone when they have a partner staying with them & others working while claiming sickness benefits etc.
But some sort of social security system has to be available to those in genuine need,
otherwise it would lead to increased levels of crime & ghettoise lots of communities,
where we would have no go areas full of underclass people & other areas full of affluent people,just like the USA.
*Man With A Social Consience  07-Dec-2007 04:23

 
My gripe is certain people in council houses. There is a family I see everyday as I pass through the council estate to get to work that really gets my back up. The mother stands outside in her dressing gown smoking, effing and blinding, the dad comes out with no top on with his gut hanging out, the kids are all dirty yet they have 3 nearly brand new cars in the drive way.

The family all have free bus passes because, and I know this to be true, the dad can't work because of STRESS, yeah right. The mum cant work because she has to look after her dyslexic daughter of 17 years old. It's a joke and a mockery to us hard working, tax paying people.

This family and hundreds like them get everything free handed to them, yet when I was made redundant after 15 years hard work, due to an error I was told at the time I was not eligible for help as I had not contributed enough this financial year. Yet this family have never worked a day in there lives!

It makes me sick. Get rid of benefits for those who cant be bothered to work...
*Monkey  04-Dec-2007 14:30

 
When the Housing Slump and crash that hit Northern Rock hits the rest of Society living outside their means. We will see a sharper rise in repossessions and Bankrupticies, which are all ready on the increase in this country. Remember what happens in the USA hits us about a year later. Where do the affected homeless families go.

On the OP's side Government is to soft on the spongers and have ridiculious rules for the needy.
*Troll Slayer  02-Dec-2007 13:12

 
to nikki from Harlow (or is that harlot) glad you enjoyed your dancing safe in the knowledge that you most probably left your brats in the care of a one brain cell like you ,or was it home alone ,seeing that you have the morals of an animal. As I said before you ought to do something other than laying on your back breeding, try learning basic grammar and spelling, then you could pass this skill onto your brats or else the only thing they will know is how to multi-breed. I would hate to be your gynecologist, I bet it's like looking up Dartford Tunnel, it's just as busy. Yuk.
*margo  02-Dec-2007 11:03


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